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  1. I find the concept of a thread existing solely for the purpose of maintaining Hall membership hilarious. Btw here's my post for the month
  2. You will be assimilated into TWP. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
  3. I hadn't seen those, I guess I was looking in the wrong place. Regardless, I'd love to help out with the paper if there's any room for me.
  4. I was just wondering what the current state of the newspaper is, regarding activity. Is it still being worked on, or has it been shelved? I've always wanted to see a TWP newspaper succeed, and we have had some really good issues, but it seems that no iteration of it ever lasts very long. If nobody is currently working on the newspaper, I'd like to throw my hat in the ring and give it a try.
  5. Nation in The West Pacific: Tunapocalypse World Assembly (WA) Nation: Tunapocalypse Please list any other names or aliases you use in NationStates: N/A Please list regions or organizations with which you are currently affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: One Big Island, The Rejected Realms, Balder Please list regions or organizations with which you have in the past been affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: Would you like to join (check all that you wish to join)... [ ] The West Pacific Armed Forces [ ] Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Corp [X] The West Pacifican Newspaper Staff [ ] Ministry of Recruitment and Citizenry Staff [ ] Ministry of Internal Affairs Staff Please swear the following oath of citizenship: I, Tunapocalypse, swear that I have, to the best of my knowledge, been completely truthful in applying for citizenship in The West Pacific and that I have no other NationStates identity that has not been made known in this application. I swear my allegiance to The West Pacific and its citizens, and I swear not to engage in hostilities against The West Pacific or to violate The Manners of Governance, the constitution of The West Pacific, or any laws made pursuant to that constitution.
  6. Looks like Macbook specs have changed since I last looked into laptops, my bad. For the exact specs of the $2000 15" Macbook Pro you can get a Lenovo with the exact same specs from $1000 to $1800. Depending on what you actually use your laptop for, 16gb RAM is going to be excessive for most people and you can save money going for 8 instead. Additionally, the difference in performance between Intel i5 and i7 processors is beyond negligible unless you overclock, which again most people won't need to do and is a good area to save a few bucks.
  7. Prices are unreasonably high for Apple products in the US as well, because they're simply unreasonable. You can get a windows (you can also run linux if you prefer) laptop that does everything a Macbook Pro does, but for less than half the price. An HP Pavillion has twice the RAM, more storage, a comparable processor, hell they both even have the same crummy Intel HD 4000 GPU, and will save you a few hundred bucks.
  8. After everyone has put up their ideas, perhaps we should start off by making a poll to choose the region's preferred topic? Sadly I don't have any of my own to put forth, yet.
  9. I've been pumped for Ip Man 3, but I'm probably going to have to wait for the DVD release to see it in the US. Other than that Rogue One will probably be good, and I still have to see Revenent, Hail Caesar!, and Deadpool.
  10. All hail the VoV and the new tea-barren regime!
  11. Perhaps The Weird Pacific could do with a completely nonsensical holiday that is in no way related to anything, such as Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster Day where we honor the accomplishments of Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster. Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster is known for how he triumphantly rid his birth country of Ktildismibinijimistan of snails and cabbages by pouring tons of salt on them (we do not mention how this led to a great deal of trouble for farmers whose cabbage fields were now completely unfarmable, and the subsequent salt-shortage, and increased cost of snails and cabbages nationwide). He also invented the Two Slice Deflurgenbergtoaster Oven, or Toaster for short. He also invented the process of toasting, before him bread and bagels were either eaten cold or thoroughly burnt (it should also be mentioned that any toaster with a capacity for more than two slices of anything are works of the Devil, who is also Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster's evil twin). Seeing the famine and economic strife that his homeland suffered from (which were in no way a direct result of his own actions), Saint Deflurgenberg Toaster gave all of the profits from his Toaster back to his community, effectively ending homelessness and bringing about world peace for about 30 minutes. However, all the prophets from his Toaster led to a great deal of confusing and conflicting prophecies that the monks of Ktildisimibinijimistan are still trying to properly understand to this day. Saintdeflurgenbergtoaster tragically died in the middle of an outdoor karaoke party when he was ambushed and devoured by a pack of rabid snakes. The proper actions for observing Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster Day (April 16th), otherwise known as The Feast of Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster as it takes place on the anniversary of this one time that Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster ate an entire jar of pickles in one sitting, are as follows: - Eating toasted foods or otherwise using a two slice toaster. -Admonishing those who use/own a toaster with a capacity for greater than two slices of bread. -Pouring vast quantities of salt on things we dislike -Giving alms to the poor -Channeling the spiritual energy of toasters to create more prophecies to keep the monks of Ktildisimibinijimistan employed -The especially devout may also honor Saint Deflurgenbergtoaster by commiting ritual suicide by sacrificing themselves to snakes. This is just a rough idea though.
  12. Nationality is American, born and raised in Connecticut. On my Mother's side I'm equally 50% French and 50% German. (Grandmother was French, Grandfather was German, both were first generation immigrants). My grandfather had a pretty fun childhood, which took place primarily during the rule of the Third Reich. He was relocated by the government a bunch of times (my great grandfather was an officer in charge of making those kinds of decisions so he was normally able to work out some nice arrangements, no we weren't Nazis), once living on a farm just outside of Warsaw. He even got to experience the thrill of fleeing from the advancing Russian forces on a wagon train though Czechoslovakia when he was 17. He genuinely came from a time when men were men, women were men, and children were men. On my Father's side things are hard to get down with 100% accuracy, but it's roughly 50% English from my Grandfather from whom we can trace my family back to the first Mayflower. On my Grandmother's side I'm mostly Irish with a dash of French Canadian. She claims that my irish bits also have a bit of Spanish from when the Armada crashed (We all thought it was complete BS, but after taking one of those genealogy DNA tests it showed similarities to Spanish traits, so who knows. There was also some Turkish that came up, but we have no idea what's up with that.). She also claims that the French Canadian bits also have a bit of Native Canadian, but we can't prove it.
  13. Favorite board game is Diplomacy. It's like Risk but without any reliance on dice rolls, solely inter-player diplomacy. The game gets really intense because of that, I've had people walk out multiple times after being double crossed.One guy actually refuses to play any more because he got so salty the last time he played. Favorite card game is probably Munchkin. Don't really know how to explain it. Its a really good party game where you play as competing adventurers trying to clear a dungeon, easy enough to learn while still allowing for some pretty clever plays. As for D&D, that's easily my favorite tabletop game ever, but I can't really classify it as a board game. My weekly group has had many days where we just play with pen, paper, and dice and don't use maps/miniatures at all. I've only ever played 3.5e, 4e, and 5e (as well as a few adventures from 2e that were slightly modified for 4e and 5e). Can't say I really have a favorite, each version had something that I loved and something that I hated. Probably had the most fun with 4e though. And CAH is fun for a little while, but it's primarily a game about shock value. After a while the cards stop being funny and the game stops being fun, from my experience at least.
  14. A November 1st Z-4 issue would definitely be ambitious, the newspaper staff would have to work through the night to have an issue ready in time. We could definitely get an article together about TWP's purge experiment (if we go through with it). Do we have enough material prepared/planned to justify a full release on the 1st or 2nd? Perhaps we can release it as a Z-4 Special Edition?
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